Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Associate Professor in History of Religion. Modern Judaism, Interreligious Dialogue, Religion & Literature.

Doctor of Philosophy in education and post-doctoral fellow in history didactics. Member of the research group History and Education.

PHD-student and upper secondary school teacher. My reserach concerns schoolequipment and teaching focusing on  the 19th- and 20th century in Sweden. I teach mostly within the teacher education.

Professor in History of science and ideas. Head of research for History and education. 

PhD student in History and Education and a part of the graduate school PEDASK (Schooling in perspective: A graduate school in applied history of education).

I am a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy working on causation and explanation. 

Charlotta Svonni is a PhD candidate in History and Education with a focus on Sámi education.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of History of Science and Ideas.

Professor of Church History at the Faculty of Arts and Professor of History and Education at Umeå School of Education.

I am an Assistant Professor with focus in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. My main areas of research are Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy of Science.

(he/they) I am associate professor in philosophy and representative for equal opportunities. I work primarily in the philosophy of language, in both its theoretical and practical dimensions.

Glenn Sandström is a Docent/Associate Professor researching family dynamics from a historical and contemporary perspective.

Associate professor of history and education. Director of third-cycle studies.

Senior research assistant at the Environmental Archaeology Lab, working with archaeobotanical remains.

Doctoral student in Systematic Theology.

I specialize in political philosophy and normative ethics. My research addresses topics such as dignity, self-respect, well-being, strategic interaction and the workings of democracy.

I am a researcher in the history of science and ideas, with a focus on environmental history. As of June 2022, I am Arctic Five Chair in Environmental History at Umeå University.

Associate professor in History of Science and Ideas. In my research I have focused on the interaction between science, politics and the media in a broad sense. 

I examine the closure of privately run Muslim schools being accused of radicalising their pupils. 

I am Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in philosophy.

Researcher working on the history of medical journalism in post-war Sweden.

I am associate professor in philosophy and director of our B.A. program in Philosophy and Society. I teach and supervise in moral philosophy and political philosophy.

Senior lecturer/associate professor (docent) in philosophy and subject coordinator for the philosophy subject at Umeå University.

Within my project funded by my Wallenberg Scholar Grant (2020-25) I lead a cross-disciplinary team researching how disabilities affect people's ageing and health in Swedish society across time.

I am a PhD student in philosophy. My research is about lying and misleading, considered from a philosophy of language perspective.

Madeleine Hayenhjelm (Ph.D, Phil.lic., Royal Institute of Technology) is a senior lecturer in Philosophy and specialises in Ethics of Risk and Moral Philosophy.

PhD student in History and Education.

Professor of Archaeology

I regularly teach history of philosophy, and occasionally metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science. My research focuses on Kant's philosophy.

I am a PhD candidate in History and Education with a focus on the history of elementary school teachers in Sweden

I am a doctoreal resercher in environmental archaeology, studying how we with the use of kemometric methods, can trace the movement patterns of Neolithic people of Västerbotten, Swedens inland.

I am docent in systematic theology. My research is primarily in philosophical- and fundamental theology, but I am also interested in classical dogmatics.  

PhD student in environmental archaeology, mainly environmental reconstructions and mobility. Project assistant in the SEAD project, responsible for import and quality assurance of data.

PhD Student in History, specialising in fascism and currently writing a dissertation on the ideology of the swedish (neo-)fascist Per Engdahl.

I am Associate Professor in New Testament Exegesis. The focus of my research has been early Jewish texts on the one hand, and identity formation and interpretation of history among early Christians on the other.

I teach introductory courses in ethics, metaethics and decision theory. My research focuses on ethics and value theory, especially on moral obligations to future generations.

Vice Dean of Arts and Humanities. Director of The Environmental Archaeology Lab and the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD). Senior Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology.

I am a PhD student in archaeology studying mobility and spatial organisation at settlements by using archaeological and ethnographical sources combined with chemical, physical and spectral analysis.

I am head of subject for philosophy. Min research focuses on different questions in the philosophy of mind. I teach teacher candidates, and students in philosophy and cognitive science.

PhD student in history, researching the impacts of migration flows on rural areas in northern Sweden during the 20th century, both on a structural and individual level.

My responsibilities are internal and external communication which include the departments website, calendar, ads, posters and other printed information.

I am a PhD student in philosophy. My research revolves around axiology applied within the field of political philosophy, with a special focus on the capability approach framework.

I am a PhD student in History, researching emotions and perceptions of the capital punishment and royal mercy in petitions in 17th and 18th century Sweden.

My name is Simon Lundberg and I work as a doctoral student in History and Education. My research focuses specifically on history teaching in relation to a multi-ethnic classroom context.

Administrative project coordinator and archaeobotanist at the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory.

I am an associate professor of philosophy, with a focus on practical philosophy. My research is centered around free will, moral responsibility, animal ethics and philosophy of psychiatry.

I am a PhD student in the history of ideas, with a focus on early modern ideas about human connectedness, cheap print, and the combination of intellectual history and the history of emotions.

Professor of Psychology of religion.

Doctoral student in religious studies. Researching the construction of gender in contemporary, European tantra. 

Ph.D. student in archaeology.

Professor of History, deputy head of department. Research interests: Women and gender history from legal, political and social perspectives. ”End of Love”, investigates Early Modern divorces.